Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-11-16


what New Havener Thinks of the
Pay OF the RefereeS-POIO I'm General.
"What do you think of the pay of the polo
referees?' was asked of James H Kelley, the
we'll known and popular base ball manager
yesterday.
"What do think? Well, I will tell you.
The pay of the referees is much too small.
1t is just the same in polo as in base ball.
1t was the cry last season about the incom-
you expect with the pay that they gotta Take
the polo referees. Three dollars per game
and expenses is very poor pay. He must be
a good man who can hold the audience. I
think even So per game and expenses is
rather small pay. There are very few who
are willing to get out on a rink floor and
take the vituperations which an audience
will probably heap upon him if everything is
not done to suit them for So game and ex-
penses."
Instead of playing here Saturday night the
New Bedfords will be here on Friday night
This will be the first game of the season
here. Playing will commence at nine
O'Clock.
The New Ravens began practicing yester-
day morning. Their playing showed that
they will be as formidable as last season.
Reserved seats for the games at Lincoln
rink are on sale at Jones' cigar store on
Church street.
The Hartford Times makes the following
prediction of the order of finishing: New
Haven, Meriden, Hartford, Waterbury,
Bridgeport.
This season the New Haven management
are determined to do away with ali unearth-
ly noises which were SO characteristic of last
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blowing tin horns, and they are also going
to stop smoking in the rink. The rink will
be so run this season that anyone may at
tend and pass pleasant evening.
The New Bedfords have new suits similar
to those worn by Harvard's football team.
The new polo scheme in New York will be
inaugurated about Dec. 1.
Doe will play his last games with the Bos-
tons this week. The Boston Herald SAYS he is
in fine condition for the Connecticut season.
They are having trouble in New Bedford
over referee. 1t is feared that polo will die
out there altogether. Manager Bancroft says
that what New Bedford people want is the
doesn't do as they want heaven help him.
So it will be seen that trouble over the refe-
rec has already begun. Nobody knows when
or where it will end.
Manager Robbins of the new Boston team
has secured Goaltend Edmonds, formerly of
the Paris club of East Boston.
1t is quite probable that Conway, of last
seasons Hartfords, will not play this season.
There seems to be no end of fault finding
in Hartford. In the first place the referees
there declined to serve unless they were paid
So game and expenses, and now there is q
cry against the secretary of the league being
located in New Haven.
The Meriden team will report to. day. The
Waterburys will also report to-day in Meri-
den and practice in the Meriden rink it being
impossible to do SO this week in Waterbury,
The captain and center of the Waterburys
will be the well known A. T. Hill, formerly
of the Tauntons, Hartfords and New Havens
and now of Meriden He is one of the best
centers in the business. Jules Regnier whom
Manager Winslow had signed for this years
Bestons, and who played finely for Lowell's
champion team last year, has signed as rush
er, and G. F. Cunningham and John Griffin,
of Taunton, are two other rushers who have
put their names to Waterbury contracts
Frazier of Boston, formerly of the old Ponies
and Bay State teams, will be half back, and
L. E. MeKie, of Boston, will tend goal 81.
r. Durant, of New Haven, is substitute.
John Allen, of New Haven has been released
1t is believed that the Bridgeport rink will
be completed before Christmas The sched-
ule opens with game there November 90
1t is likely that the first four games sched-
uled for Bridgeport will have to be played in
some other rink or hall besides the Gem. If
possible the armory will be secured. If this
cannot be done there are two courses open
play the games. The other is to play one in
Waterbury, one in New Haven, one in Meri-
den and the fourth in Observation-Disclosures
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